The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-05
GENE1sAL LOGAN.
A Thought for Ills Memorial Grafton sug.
.E'rg ges,cd by Private Dnlzsli. ,aH

a Thought for Ills Memorial Grafton sug'
.l'r ges,cd by Private Dalzsil. aa5l
To he Editor OF ne hattlltgaletr. .3R
sIR:-Whoever bhall be lound worthy 10
deliver the memorial Grafton on General
Logan will have strange and unusual
field for the display Of e!oqucnce. The
country has produced no character like
him, In all respects, though he possessed
in the marked degree Of genius oil Of the
bes. traits Of the noblest men and none OF
tho evil traits or faults Oh the worat. There
VIA nothing mediocre or CommonplaGe,yet
nothing eccentric in his character. lives
concen,riC, symmetrical and unique
no, thing like It in all points in oil human
history In any one man. Some one hos
called it "pic.uresquc"-and like the
word. It characterlzes and describes the
man like n whole book, that single word
"p!cturesque." His whole life apeaks to
the eye aud the fancy in pictures that will
remain the study and delight Of youth for
ayes 10 como. He was caught up into
heaven before the years had made their
mark in bis splendid, godlike physique.
Translated In the full and ma,ehless
strength and beauty Of his prime, Logsn,
can never grow old now-young and
beautiful forever. sac ),
No wonder, good women paused aud
gazed on the pri1csly, majesty and grace
OF that matchless form tRs 1t lay there
silent and motonless but peerless and In
comparable yet Tor It's manly beauty. It
wns no. bent nor wrinkled with ago. 1t
was not marred by violence nor wasted by
disease. lticemed yet In liz youth and
full maturity, but untouched by decline:
Though beyond axsy, Logan's hair and
mtue.sche, rs well known sB himself, and
iusenarable from any thought OF tAs
heroic statesman, still retained the mid
night lustre OF the ravens wing.
"Eothirg he c I n tcar,. d!sp n!sc or blam,
hut uti wss welt aud fair."
The splendid AlcibiRdcs was burned
alive in his own house by bsrbarous
hands; Aristides the just died d pauper
and was buried at the public charge;
Themistocles, than whom no more mag.
uiticent military leader sdorna tho pages
! Of history, died il prison; Alexander ex.
pred in drunken TT; Pyrrhua, like
Lincoln, was murdered In theater;
Napoleon died in exile; Grant wasted
away with caucsr, but our Logan, more
happy than most heroes Of the world, died
TRANQUILITY at his home in the full strength
OF his manhood In the bosom OF his fam.
| lily. i@ n
"In lies last stage, what prodists arls,, ~
Tears OF the brdsc and iollles OF The wis'. Us
From m.rlbro's eye the tears Of d9t,ge flow,
And swift expires driyeile. and u show"
When the hnows Of age whiten the ono.
time raven locks. when the luatrous dark
eye is dimmed with shadows, when the
whole frame quakts with the palsy of de-
cline, when furrows mar the beauty and
symmetry Of hand and brow and cneek,
aad the old man totters to the tomb, who
could call him back TO these scenes OF
BORROW and suffering? lie was glad 70 20
to his lest at last and the world easily bidB
him farewell; nor can it ever think Of
him, however great or honorable, without
associating with the image thus recalled
the wasted form and miseriea OF age. Not
80 with Logan.
The splendid soldier Of Monterey snd
Buena Vista is the same gallant knight
who rode at the head OF charging columns
at Shiloh and Atlanta, or lay cold and
stately still under the 1otunda CT the Ma
tons Capitol but the other day, young
and beautiful 10 the eye yet, in tho grave,
and go passed into history, forever T., re-.
main the ideal soldier Of the world.
dream, % E-l5rg .-l~I7 :, -"
a light tina! never YVES on land or SEA-"
"On some hesven-kiss!pg Hill let the
immortal Logan ever remain, tho cynogurs
OF billion eyes that yet huve not seen
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